My
California Road Trip for Spring 2001

On
the road with a camera and a crappy laptop...

This
is my "on the road" web page, which I am using as sort of an online
diary for my spring trip. I suspect this traveling diary
will be of most interest to people who are planning on making
a simular trip themselves. Therefore, I am giving driving times,
distances, travel tips, etc. I hope this will make this
online travel diary a little more valuable than if I just rambled
on and on about what I did and where I went. (Which, I might add,
I still intend to do - but at least I hope to impart some useful
information along the way!) I will be traveling to Yosemite National
Park for a few days, and then to Sequoia National Park, for a
quick visit.

I
am bringing my old trusty Pentium 100 laptop with me. I love it,
but it is, well, a crappy laptop after all! My laptop has only
16 megs of RAM, and as with most laptops, doesn't have the best
screen for working with Photoshop. However, I have Photoshop
4 installed anyway. It's an older version, but it'll do just fine.
I also have the oldie but goodie, HomeSite 3 installed, for editing
my web pages. So, I'm all set, with my crappy laptop and vintage
software! Some of this travel diary will be spruced up and edited
at home the with my "big" computer, but the "meat"
of this diary has been created on the road, using the crappy laptop.
(I explain this in case you're wondering why some of these travel
diary pages have a different "look" compared to the
rest of the Bearclover.net).

Please
note: Many of the photos on this travel diary are either from
photos I have taken on previous trips, or were taken on my crappy
digital camera. On this latest trip, I took pictures with my cheepie
digital camera, along with my "real" camera, an old
Olympus SLR. I am still waiting for most of my SLR camera photos
to be developed, and thought the digital camera pics might be
fun to use for now!

I am pathetic.
I have made a tribute page to
my car. But anyone who has driven their car on a lot of
road trips (like I have) can probably identify with my attachment
to such a good and faithful car. Even if it is merely a humble
Dodge Colt!

A visitor
to this site shared a poem about redwoods with me. The poet,
Chantal Bruce, is a grade 12 student in Cranbrook, BC. She and
her mother, Roberta, graciously gave me permission to publish
this delightful poem on this site. So, I have made a little
web page to showcase her poem. I used a photo I took on
one of my trips through the Avenue of the Giants for the graphic.
Be warned, the graphic on this page is large - expect a 20 -
40 second download if you have a slower connection!